Does anyone else think about the items left behind that could be repurposed elsewhere versus ending up in a landfill?Wouldn’t it be nice if they could allow one day where the public could sign a waiver to come and remove what they want before demolition begins?
The steel can be separated from the concrete and recycled. There isn't much chance of reusing the concrete. That stuff has to be poured new. I wonder if the brick facing is reused or thrown away, when considering that bricks do wear out over time.
Most cities have ordinances now that a percentage of the building being demolished must be recycled; they probably already repurposed much of the building
@@eitkoml Thats not true, concrete is recycled all the time. They crush it and use it as aggregate just like rock and gravel. The brick can be recycled as substrate for foundation or even sidewalks
@@southwestxnorthwest That’s all well and good, but too often there are salvageable items left behind such a light fixtures, exit signs, etc. that a lot of individuals or businesses could repurpose and in some cases upgrade from what they already have. But instead security fences go up, the building gets demolished along with these items and ends up commingled with all the concrete, wood and glass from the general demolition.
Whoever is driving those excavators is very skilled, i had to remind myself this is a demolition job not a kaiju movie. They are straight smashin this building. Love the video to it started slow at first next thing i know 10 minutes in the building walls & roof are just crumbling all over its self.
Yep. Most people want this to go fast, but if you knock over the entire brick facade into the construction fence you're apt to kill a mom and her kids in a passing minivan. Plus environmental gets really mad if you make way too much dust at once. You mostly want this slow and steady with no surprises.
That would be one of the dumbest mistakes a demolition crew could ever make, especially when I’ve mostly seen it happening in the US, No wonder why it’s important to actually be extremely cautious about checking if you’ve got the right building first, especially if it’s a VERY old building or house your demolishing
You can knock a brick wall down with a feather. It's scary how many ancient brick facades there are towering over people on buildings in big cities which are basically balanced on steel beams.
so true, that leaves me to think that he's playing , if your going to bring it down , bring it down , stop fucking around. if i was the boss he'd be fired by now.
What many people don't realize is all that debris will be sorted , concrete steel, ect will be recycled. What cannot be recycled will have to be disposed of at a landfill. That is expensive. The less that is sent to the landfill the more profit the contractor makes.The operator is very skilled. Those are not garden hoses, more like high pressure fire hoses.
And why not pulling out cables, HAVAC parts (which arent afixed the roof, scaffold would be too expensive or even scissor plattforms on wheels) from the inside before the concrete gets ripped? Here it is even not allowed to landfill the roofing.
1995: Dad, why is everything build out of concrete and steel? Well son, those materials are invincible! 2020: Me at the controls of those shears: Look at me dad! I'm invincible!
When they tore down Shea Stadium,everything was laid into separate piles and recycled,even the asphalt from the parking lots. The rubble was all ground up on site for easy transport by large dump trucks to a recycling facility
Demolition contractor's skill, making mice meat of the main walls, battling with re enforced concrete, what would have taken a long, time to build, is ripped down in a few hours
" As interesting as seeing the demolition is the different methods each equipment operator uses. One mainly chews and smashes the structure in, while the other weakens the vertical supports and let's the structural weight bring down huge sections. "
we are looking for the spectacular collapse (59 mins on) but the whole aim is to bring it down a little at a time so no big section falls out into the street or causes another section to buckle and fail.If anyone had bumped a pillar inside this building it could have caused a deck of cards style or domino collapse. Good it is gone, only held together by crappy wire mesh and bad rebar.
Frustrating to watch him pull down the brick facade when he could be pulling down pillars and walls. Like going after the wallpaper instead of the walls.
Well, these bricks are just there to cover the concrete walls, so they aren‘t holding any weight and therefore you can just peel them from the concrete wall. Also a solid brick building usually has thicker walls.
Do they recycle the broken bricks into new bricks or does all this rubble go to landfills? Some buildings are torn down manually to recycle the bricks and the wood beams and rafters and resold as used at a discount to avoid landfill costs Sometimes the rubble is taken to shredder yards to reduce it to powder form. The powder is used to make new bricks and concrete blocks The steel beams and girders are shredded and sent to China as scrap and remanufactered as new automobiles and appliances. The USA then imports the autos and appliances from China
@@JohnZWetmore Yeah...that's it. West side of US-1, and east of Pentagon City mall, where I started a Volksmarch September 11 2004. I remember that USGS maps were ordered from Eads Street, before Reston VA.
why does the building still have power hook up to it during demolition? check around 13:40s mark and later on past the 15 minutes mark. there is a light bulb that is still on and it's clearly visible.
It's just daylight coming in through the hole reflecting off the shiny light fixture. If the circuits were live, it would have made for some very interesting video when the wiring was severed.
@@ewanlaffin5197 I've filmed demolitions where they knocked over a light pole they shouldn't have and got a nice shower of sparks. There were no sparks with this demolition.
No. This is good methodical demo. Brick and steel separate & less sorting before hauling. Critiquing a video without knowing the job or the building is stupit ain't it?
You can bet that bloke in the digger will never be asked to rob a cash machine with a digger. Time he gets it out of the wall the money would be out of date 🤣🤣
OMG! I just wrote a comment under a video of a wrecking ball used on Steel-Concrete. I wrote "Hey, you should use this on Brickbuildings, but thats all. For Steelconcret you need a hydraulic scissor!". And now this... You guys should swap heavy machinery xD (Edited:) Whats the goal? Just kill the brick-layer (yeah, ik xD) or wreck the whole object?
What is the significance of the orange bicycle in the frame now and then? Is that a representation of a cyclist injury or fatality? In New York city they have white bicycles at the locations of cyclist fatalities, they call them "Ghost Bikes".
An abandoned AMAZON HQ2 warehouse gets demolished, site clearance for a new build. Careful demolition work, keeping the debris, bricks falling in side the boundary fence.
To clarify, it wasn't an Amazon warehouse. The land was bought by Amazon to build their Headquarters Two buildings, which will be a pair of tall office towers.
@@Archhistbuff soz but your wrong, ive worked on many demo jobs in the UK and thats just pure slow! if you watch enough videos on here you will see what i mean!
Pulling bricks and cutting concrete wastes time, energy and money. The operator should concentrate on pulling out pillars and columns then floors. This would cut the demolition by 75 per cent.
1:30 when you see the wall flex so easily it makes one wonder how it stood for so long against the weather !😮
This is my all time favorite video so far
After a slow start, its amazing how this building seems to unzip itself section by section. Great video.
yea thats right. or it would never get done
this is the best demo I have ever watched. This bulding is really well built. well done demo guys!
uh seriously... and is it also the only demo you have watched... I have seen way more interesting demos... this video sucked
If you don’t like it, then don’t watch it. No need to complain
Does anyone else think about the items left behind that could be repurposed elsewhere versus ending up in a landfill?Wouldn’t it be nice if they could allow one day where the public could sign a waiver to come and remove what they want before demolition begins?
The steel can be separated from the concrete and recycled. There isn't much chance of reusing the concrete. That stuff has to be poured new. I wonder if the brick facing is reused or thrown away, when considering that bricks do wear out over time.
Most cities have ordinances now that a percentage of the building being demolished must be recycled; they probably already repurposed much of the building
@@eitkoml Thats not true, concrete is recycled all the time. They crush it and use it as aggregate just like rock and gravel. The brick can be recycled as substrate for foundation or even sidewalks
@@southwestxnorthwest That’s all well and good, but too often there are salvageable items left behind such a light fixtures, exit signs, etc. that a lot of individuals or businesses could repurpose and in some cases upgrade from what they already have. But instead security fences go up, the building gets demolished along with these items and ends up commingled with all the concrete, wood and glass from the general demolition.
I remember that warehouse I worked on that job back in March great job Cam and Aceco.
is it just me or were the lights still on in the building?????
Whoever is driving those excavators is very skilled, i had to remind myself this is a demolition job not a kaiju movie. They are straight smashin this building. Love the video to it started slow at first next thing i know 10 minutes in the building walls & roof are just crumbling all over its self.
Yep. Most people want this to go fast, but if you knock over the entire brick facade into the construction fence you're apt to kill a mom and her kids in a passing minivan. Plus environmental gets really mad if you make way too much dust at once. You mostly want this slow and steady with no surprises.
2 hours later......"oi....we've got the wrong address"
(lmao) " YOU'RE SO SILLY! "
That would be one of the dumbest mistakes a demolition crew could ever make, especially when I’ve mostly seen it happening in the US, No wonder why it’s important to actually be extremely cautious about checking if you’ve got the right building first, especially if it’s a VERY old building or house your demolishing
I actually love that this vid is so long.
I love how much the wall moves after one little tap lol
You can knock a brick wall down with a feather. It's scary how many ancient brick facades there are towering over people on buildings in big cities which are basically balanced on steel beams.
so true, that leaves me to think that he's playing , if your going to bring it down , bring it down , stop fucking around. if i was the boss he'd be fired by now.
I get a Big Bang out of watching these buildings being taken down.great videos
this is just watchable at 2x speed
Thank you for sharing that brilliant idea!
D D thanks
Ahh that's better
excellent idea!
What many people don't realize is all that debris will be sorted , concrete steel, ect will be recycled. What cannot be recycled will have to be disposed of at a landfill. That is expensive. The less that is sent to the landfill the more profit the contractor makes.The operator is very skilled. Those are not garden hoses, more like high pressure fire hoses.
And why not pulling out cables, HAVAC parts (which arent afixed the roof, scaffold would be too expensive or even scissor plattforms on wheels) from the inside before the concrete gets ripped? Here it is even not allowed to landfill the roofing.
I thought the first rule of Demolition Club was to cut the power.
yeah no kidding who left that light on
Very cool watching what this piece of equipment can do!
Them pulveriser attachments are seriously powerful!
1995:
Dad, why is everything build out of concrete and steel?
Well son, those materials are invincible!
2020:
Me at the controls of those shears:
Look at me dad! I'm invincible!
I have a home improvement project the Mrs has been nagging me about all winter, where can I rent one of those?
Holy crud! right around 3 minutes when that wall pack falls off the wall, you could actually hear the HID lamp exploding!
Building demolition lesson 101:
Use the piece of machinery head that looks like a dinosaur and start knocking the bricks off first…
Then… .. 😂😆🤣
No” no Dino; Don’t eat the rubble , it will give you indigestion, Good boy “! 🤗
Yes, I don't think the machines being used to it's full potential, haha.
When they tore down Shea Stadium,everything was laid into separate piles and recycled,even the asphalt from the parking lots. The rubble was all ground up on site for easy transport by large dump trucks to a recycling facility
When the wrecking shears touch the brick wall it flexes like cardboard.
Nice interesting video. Keep making them and learn along the way.
Demolition contractor's skill, making mice meat of the main walls, battling with re enforced concrete, what would have taken a long, time to build, is ripped down in a few hours
I would have LOVED to have had some of those stone cap blocks from the roof!
New guy! Gotta learn sometime. Sure has those hydraulic lines in harm’s way a lot!
It seems like he could just push the wall right over. But it looks like he's just having fun chewing up the walls.
That’s an extremely flexible wall 😳
Was it first day behind the controls for the driver? Gosh. This was a painful watch.
After an hour, why stop the video at 98% finished?
bring us lots of updates :) love this footage that once strong warehouse looks flimsey as paper lol
Yeah, just goes to show how brick is only strong when it doesn’t have a gaping hole punched in it.
Once this operator got warmed up and familiar with the structure, he went to town!
" As interesting as seeing the demolition is the different methods each equipment operator uses. One mainly chews and smashes the structure in, while the other weakens the vertical supports and let's the structural weight bring down huge sections. "
Makes more sense to work from the top down.
the building looked extremely unstable, thin walls and narrow beams, good that it was demolished
What a great job to have, I'd love a go.
do you salvage the bricks
Hey Harry, I think I hear someone breaking in to the back of the Warehouse! (Harry:) It's just the rats!
This has to be one of the best jobs on earth 🌎
Usually, you scrap out the interior first. There's a lot of metal in there...
The rubble was sorted into metal, masonry and concrete, and misc. other debris. Each was hauled off separately.
@@JohnZWetmore That's one way to do it...
@@JohnZWetmore you could make a ton by selling surplus instead of scrap
we are looking for the spectacular collapse (59 mins on) but the whole aim is to bring it down a little at a time so no big section falls out into the street or causes another section to buckle and fail.If anyone had bumped a pillar inside this building it could have caused a deck of cards style or domino collapse. Good it is gone, only held together by crappy wire mesh and bad rebar.
So this was concrete block with steel framing and brick veneer? Must be alot of asbestos in that place too.
Did you get your operator from the kiddie corral?
So nobody thought to turn off the power? Why are the lights still on??
Frustrating to watch him pull down the brick facade when he could be
pulling down pillars and walls. Like going after the wallpaper instead
of the walls.
Ist das in Zeitlupe gefilmt , wie lange will der sich mit dem bischen Halle aufhalten 😢😢😢
The lights in the building were still on
That settles it....this is how i'm going to eat cookies from now on.
Its interesting how springy a brick wall can be. Suddenly I'm not as thrilled I live in a brick house 🤔
Well, these bricks are just there to cover the concrete walls, so they aren‘t holding any weight and therefore you can just peel them from the concrete wall. Also a solid brick building usually has thicker walls.
My dream job
Parabéns, mto bom video .
Do they recycle the broken bricks into new bricks or does all this rubble go to landfills? Some buildings are torn down manually to recycle the bricks and the wood beams and rafters and resold as used at a discount to avoid landfill costs Sometimes the rubble is taken to shredder yards to reduce it to powder form. The powder is used to make new bricks and concrete blocks The steel beams and girders are shredded and sent to China as scrap and remanufactered as new automobiles and appliances. The USA then imports the autos and appliances from China
What's year of the warehouse?
1950s.
Is this near Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia?
Eads and 15th. Very close by, but usually called Pentagon City rather than Crystal City.
@@JohnZWetmore
Yeah...that's it. West side of US-1, and east of Pentagon City mall, where I started a Volksmarch September 11 2004.
I remember that USGS maps were ordered from Eads Street, before Reston VA.
why does the building still have power hook up to it during demolition? check around 13:40s mark and later on past the 15 minutes mark. there is a light bulb that is still on and it's clearly visible.
Not a brick tie in sight,no wonder the brickworks peeling like wallpaper, haha.
Am I the only one confused as to why it seems he's trying to be 'gentle' while he demolishes the building?
at 7.20 why are the lights in the building still on, that must mean the electrics are still live
It's just daylight coming in through the hole reflecting off the shiny light fixture. If the circuits were live, it would have made for some very interesting video when the wiring was severed.
Ok I'll take your word for it but I still wouldn't wanna be the guy on the other end of that water hose.👹
@@ewanlaffin5197 I've filmed demolitions where they knocked over a light pole they shouldn't have and got a nice shower of sparks. There were no sparks with this demolition.
Is this guy trying to take it down once brick at a time?
You have to take a building down safely You cannot demolish a building really fast because for the safety for others. ( it's safety not speed)
First time operating this equipment? Or stretching it out to get lots of overtime maybe? This is painfully slow for demolition work.
No. This is good methodical demo. Brick and steel separate & less sorting before hauling. Critiquing a video without knowing the job or the building is stupit ain't it?
Good Video
The brickwork appears to be merely decorative.
Where is part 2 ?
Final editing of Part 2 has been delayed while I have been out filming other buildings coming down. Watch for it going online next week.
@@JohnZWetmore Ok, great !
I wondered what happened to my bicycle.
Would a wrecking ball not be quicker for the red bricks areas anyhow.
The bricks crumbles like brownies
Take out a horizontal row at the base of the wall, and let gravity do the work.
Bloody truck went past at the very moment the roof collapsed(37:21)!!!!!
You can bet that bloke in the digger will never be asked to rob a cash machine with a digger.
Time he gets it out of the wall the money would be out of date 🤣🤣
This is painful..........
Ah, an opening for the public to see all pot joints inside this shady place
They stole this design from prehistoric dinosaurs and flying reptiles!!!
That was the first thing I thought. That’s a dragon!
he just tries to salvage the red bricks
OMG! I just wrote a comment under a video of a wrecking ball used on Steel-Concrete. I wrote "Hey, you should use this on Brickbuildings, but thats all. For Steelconcret you need a hydraulic scissor!".
And now this... You guys should swap heavy machinery xD
(Edited:) Whats the goal? Just kill the brick-layer (yeah, ik xD) or wreck the whole object?
One layer thick brick buildings.. oh my...
Three layer cardboard with a smiley ..... oooh my gawd. All the product will be smashed on sorting fascility.
he's afraid the machine is going to brake a nail..
"so schauts aus",, super demolition..
If he doesn’t move any faster the equipment going to rust.
If this guy was any slower you'd have to drive a stake beside him to see if he moved
The use of a garden hose for dust control was useless
The ones on the hoses don't have a clue...
What is the significance of the orange bicycle in the frame now and then? Is that a representation of a cyclist injury or fatality? In New York city they have white bicycles at the locations of cyclist fatalities, they call them "Ghost Bikes".
The colorful bicycles on the construction fence are an art project. We also have Ghost Bikes in this area (all too many), and they are white.
@@JohnZWetmore Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it.
안녕하세요 올레 회장님잘보이선니다 감사합니다 좋아요
send the bricks to the poor ..they can build shelters
He is Using the wrong Tool ! He should use a flat Shovel for the Brick wall. The "Bity" is for massive Walls of Conrete/Steel.
WOW this operator is definitely getting paid by the hour. Deliberately trying to go as slow as possible
Oh damn I fell asleep it's ok he only got 3 more bricks down in my hour nap
I don't know why but I can't look away...........
More wide shots.
What a waist. The lights can be reused
An abandoned AMAZON HQ2 warehouse gets demolished, site clearance for a new build. Careful demolition work, keeping the debris, bricks falling in side the boundary fence.
To clarify, it wasn't an Amazon warehouse. The land was bought by Amazon to build their Headquarters Two buildings, which will be a pair of tall office towers.
im guessing the operator hasnt much experience in demo work, as its tedious to watch someone working so slowly lol
That or that job pays by the hour.
@@Archhistbuff soz but your wrong, ive worked on many demo jobs in the UK and thats just pure slow! if you watch enough videos on here you will see what i mean!
They're doing a fine job on this demo. Stop being an armchair operator and show us your skills.
The operator is doing an excellent job. Don't know what you're talking about. He doing it professionally .
this man will be fired in holland. he is affraid to hurt the stones
Demasiado zoom, no se ve el derribo completo.
Pulling bricks and cutting concrete wastes time, energy and money.
The operator should concentrate on pulling out pillars and columns
then floors. This would cut the demolition by 75 per cent.
does not want to expose high-pressure hoses under the debris.
did this have asbestos
A wrecking ball would have this down by 45 minutes
Camera to close.
The person filming this is actually across the street using the zoom on the camera
Gosto de trabalhar em demolição
Godzilla vs a warehouse